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[Oliver Peters] ” In all roundtrips using a mix of software, FCP 7 was far easier to work with than FCPX.
“A good reason to limit as much as possible….
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[Michael Hancock] “Premiere, on the other hand, has a Replace Footage option where you can force it to relink to any other file, and if the new file is longer it doesn’t matter. If it’s shorter it doesn’t matter.”
Sounds handy, but will this also affect the in point you had on the temp image versus what you have on the final footage? Meaning, do you have to go back and check every force relink to be sure it’s the in and out you wanted?
Scott Witthaus
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[Oliver Peters] “It would really, really, really be nice if a “force relink” feature were added so that mismatched media files could be relinked”
Oliver –
Can you explain this a bit more? How does this situation present itself where you need to “force” the program? It’s been too long since Avid was in my market for me to remember what Media Composer did or didn’t do!
Scott Witthaus
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Wait. Every non-editor I know uses FCPX. How can this be up for an award?
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Scott Witthaus
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[Shawn Miller] “I wonder if Lynda or Pluralsite might buy them out.”
Linked In recently bought Lynda.com. Not sure what that says either.
Scott Witthaus
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[Andrew Kimery] “I had to guess I’d say that people that switched from FCP 7 to Avid or PPro are less likely to switch again so soon to another NLE.”
I have always thought that Apple really didn’t care about “switchers”. X was just too different to count on a bunch of old guys/gals (me being a member of the former) to learn a really new way to do things. If they got em, great! If not, well, they will be out of the business in a decade or so. It’s the new breed of editors is what they were/are after. Just my humble opinion.
Scott Witthaus
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1708 Inc./Editorial
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[David Mathis] “If my understanding is now correct one can choose whether the transition is applied to audio, video or both.”
Yes, by which track is active. The nice part, as Neil pointed out, is that the track was essentially locked out if it was not selected. The frustrating part comes by accidentally adding a dissolve to a selected audio track that might have been out of sight of the video track…or overwrite, insert etc.
My personal preference is the X way. I feel I can “see” the transition better.
Scott Witthaus
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1708 Inc./Editorial
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[David Mathis] “Look at Avid or Premiere Pro, they don’t slap on a audio cross dissolve when adding a video transition. Earlier versions of FCP was the same way.”
Now, I haven’t had an Avid gig in years, and I try to avoid Premiere, but isn’t this based on what tracks are active? I seem to remember that if you had any audio track selected and added the default transition for a video dissolve, you got a dissolve on the video AND that audio track (which was a pain when you had a boatload of audio tracks). It’s been a while but I seem to remember it that way.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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It is a shitty design, but I am trying to remember the last time I dissolved directly between two audio tracks. Maybe a quick ramp up or out, but I can do those faster with the little fader button on the audio track itself. Expand the tracks, pull one audio under another to your liking and use the “little fader button” on each side. When I think about it, yes, the software should include that. But in a practical sense, I have never missed it (of course, now that I know, I will miss it!).
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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[Steve Connor] “Have Adobe issued any guidance on how to repair any damage this monumentally stupid piece of programming has done?”
ya gotta pay an extra monthly fee for that information….
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Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter